Making an original contribution to debates on health policy, this accessible and engaging book critically examines the future of health care and public health policy from the perspective of users and citizens. Consumerism, partnerships with patients and user involvement are seen as key to future health care and healthy public policies.
The book outlines how individuals as patients, healthy people and research subjects relate to health services and how the public, as citizens, influence health care and public policies at local, national and international levels.Making an original contribution to debates on health policy, this accessible and engaging book critically examines the future of health care and public health policy from the perspective of users and citizens. Consumerism, partnerships with patients and user involvement are seen as key to future health care and healthy public policies.
The book outlines how individuals as patients, healthy people and research subjects relate to health services and how the public, as citizens, influence health care and public policies at local, national and international levels.`...[T]his is a useful, broad ranging text in which the breadth compensates for the brevity of some of the discussions' - Journal of Interprofessional Care
`It is fluently written and covers a wide range of material' - Medical Sociology News
`This is mainly a factual and descriptive account of ways to open up to ordinary people in their roles as both patients and citizens to influence the development of health policy and the delivery of health services' - Health & Social Calƒƒ
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